Example sentences of "she had been [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
| 2 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 3 | He studied her a moment , remembering what her cousin , Yin Wu Tsai had said : that she had been born with a woman 's body and yet a man 's soul . |
| 4 | With a start , he saw that the girl in black underwear was slumped , dead , across a couch and that she had been strangled with a scarf , which was still knotted around her neck . |
| 5 | One , Martha Barratt , had been very noisy at times , and he had been told that she had been found with a knife in her bed . |
| 6 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 7 | She had , but it had happened the previous afternoon , and Jack had gone with her to Rotherhithe Infirmary where she had been admitted with a broken hip . |
| 8 | She had been attacked with a machete . |
| 9 | Yesterday the Merseyside Police Federation Chairman , George Crichton , said that PC Harrison would have been better able to defend herself if she had been armed with an American-style side handled baton . |